TAT is a technique developed by Tapas Fleming , who is an acupuncturist and acupressure practitioner. The technique uses acupressure points to re-educate the body and mind. Tapas Fleming began her passionate search for truth at age 15. For many years her focus was on enlightenment, interpersonal relating and emotional release. In 1974, Tapas was initiated into natural meditation, a yoga-meditation for purification and liberation. After losing premature twins and coming close to dying herself, she went to school to learn acupuncture and focus on her own healing. In 1994, Tapas came up with a new simple and elegant way to serve her patients -- Tapas Acupressure Technique (TAT). She is a leading force in the emerging field of energy psychology. Tapas lives in Redondo Beach, US where she has a private practice and travels internationally to give TAT trainings.

THE TAT STORY (How I Came Up With TAT)

Both in my own life and as a practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine, I have often wondered how to get myself or a patient out from under the negative influence of past events. However much therapy or meditation or other forms of healing one undertakes, certain issues never seem to get resolved once and for all. What I have discovered from using TAT goes beyond what I learned as part of my professional acupuncture training. I discovered in my practice that our bodies, not just our minds, have memories. Not just our memories, but also the memories of our ancestors. If we stop and think about it for a minute, it becomes obvious that our bodies are the product of our parents' bodies. We look like our parents, and often have similar health problems as our parents. Our bodies have living histories, which we could call cellular memory. When an ancestor experienced something traumatic, that memory seems to be stored and passed down at a cellular level. TAT is a way of seeing the history of the cells of a human body and a way to heal the traumas that had been passed down from generation to generation What I have learned from working with many friends and patients over more than 10 years is that when the story of those cells is heard, they release the stored trauma they have been holding and are able to rejoin the organism they are part of and get on with this business of living. Using TAT, a person doesn't have to have a conscious or psychic vision of what happened. The TAT pose itself along with your focus on a trauma creates a connection between the cells' memory and your function of vision. You "re-view" the trauma and it is integrated in a few moments. WHAT IS A TRAUMA AND WHAT DOES TAT DO? A trauma occurs when life becomes unbearable and you tell it "No." or "This is too much for me." This is not necessarily a conscious choice, but a natural response to your life in that moment. This response sets up patterns of mental, emotional, and physical behaviour and health. A blockage, or energy stagnation has just been put in place and your life has been impacted. It seems like a good idea at the time, but you lose the ability of distinguishing the difference between a truly life-threatening event and an event that merely has certain aspects that resemble the original traumatic event. It is as if life were a flowing stream, and at one point, out of fear, you roll a boulder into it to try to dam the flow in order to keep a traumatic event from happening to you. The water, of course, simply flows around the boulder, but in your life - in your body, mind and emotions - there is a blockage that wasn't there before. TAT is a way of saying to your whole body-mind: "Have another look at this." It is an opportunity to change, based on taking a new look, rather than continuing to look away. By taking another look, within the context of TAT's direction of the body's energy flow, the charge that is still being held is removed from the past event and the event can now be integrated into your whole system. What has that charge been? It's traumatic stress, which is simply the stress to your system of continually trying to hold off a trauma. That event really did happen. Working to deny its existence or hold it away from you is stressful. Traumatic stress ends when the trauma is no longer resisted. TAT accomplishes this in moments. I would say that TAT reunites a person with parts of himself or herself that have been locked away or frozen in time. There are many ways to describe the results of TAT - Integration, harmony, peace, unity, connectedness, relatedness, oneness and wholeness are a few of the terms people have used to express how they feel after doing TAT. TAT can help you and your clients:

* Let go of the past and eliminate beliefs that keep you from achieving what you want and deserve in life ? success, prosperity and abundance

* Eradicate fears and phobias at their source

* Heal the emotional aspects of physical illnesses

* Stop the inner negative chatter that keeps you from creating the life you want

* Lose weight and keep it off

* Disaster counselling and assistance

TAT has been used successfully for: addictions, allergies, animals, depression, eating disorders, natural disasters, OCD, physical conditions, rape and sexual abuse, relationships, sleep disorders and nightmares, achieving success and abundance, trauma, and weight loss. Have a look at the case studies of each of these on the TAT website : www.tatlife.com

TAT is

* Simple and quick to learn

* Gentle, with no re-visiting of the original trauma required

* Able to be used for adults, children and babies, the incapacitated and elderly

* An excellent complementary therapy for counselling, EFT, Reiki etc.